Now that’s fast food: Burger tossed from car smacks motorcyclist

Deputies say an 18-year-old threw a hamburger out the sun roof of a moving car Wednesday night, and the teen is now in a legal pickle.

It wouldn’t usually become a police matter, except the burger wound up striking a passing motorcyclist. The alleged burger tosser — Justin M. Cook — faces a criminal charge of second-degree reckless endangerment.

Ontario County sheriff’s Deputy Kathleen Habberfield said Cook was a passenger in a 1993 Toyota Camry that was headed north when he threw the hamburger out the window; the motorcyclist, a man who deputies have not identified, was passing in the southbound lane.

Pieces of the hamburger struck the headlight and handlebars of the motorcycle and the leg of the motorcyclist, Sgt. David Frasca said.

The motorcyclist turned around and followed the car to a home. He got the license plate number off the Camry and called 911. Officers found Cook at the home a short while later.

Of the motorcyclist in this case, Frasca said, “He’s very lucky. I don’t know what Mr. Cook was thinking, but obviously he was not thinking at all.”